Chap. 2
I laughed. "You're joking, my life is too normal to be exciting."
"Not the reply I was expecting." Percy snorted.
Annabeth frowned "No, seriously Tasha, you are a half-blood. Half human, half God."
"Oh, yeah and pigs can fly." I smiled. It all went silent and I looked at Grover. "Pigs can fly?" I squeaked.
"Yeah. Chryasor is a flying pig, he is Pegasus' brother. I don't like him, he's big, mean, greedy and he smells horrible." Well, Okay... Fair enough.
I rested my back on the chair, closed my eyes and began to think.
If Grover, Annabeth and Percy are Greek Mythology people, how come they have american accents?
So if I really am a demi-god, who is my father... or my mum?
Is my mum actually my mum?
And is my mortal dad I hate actually be the one I'm related to, genetically closest to?
"Annabeth, Percy, look." Grover whispered. "That's what I was talking about."
I opened my eyes wondering what they were on about. "What we looking at?"
"You're glowing..." Percy poked my arm.
I raised my eyebrow at him. "Sorry." he said sheepishly.
"Just then, when you had your eyes closed, you where glowing purple." Grover said, observing me.
"Like and aura." Annabeth added.
"Yeah, I have a purple aura. Probably demi-gods have clearer aura's then proper mortals." I shrugged. Annabeth didn't look convinced but she rested back in her seat anyway.
Argus parked away from all the other cars then got out, we all did the same.
We waited for Argus to lock the car- well that's what I thought he was going to do. Instead he pressed a button and the car compressed into a keyring and Agrus put it in his pocket.
We headed into the entrance, I looked nervously at the other people and Argus. Nobody seemed to realise that this guy had around 100 eyes all over his body.
"We should probably explain about the mist," Percy said, apearing next to me as Annabeth paid for the tickets. "You see, it stops mortals from seeing things they're not suppost to, like Argus, and monsters and things."
I nodded like I understood.
"Can I use a payphone, to tell my mum where I am? You know, she's probably freaking out right now." I said.
"You can use an Iris message, come with me." Annabeth headed for the toilets and I followed.
"Isn't Iris the goddess of rainbows? How is she going to help?" I asked.
"She also was a messenger for the gods." Annabeth checked the toilets to see if anyone was in then she dug around in her pocket and pulled out a large coin. She put one of the taps on full blast. "It's sort of a... video phone call. I'll guard the door. Throw this dranchma into the water mist then say where your mum is and her name." She passed me the large coin- dranchma. "Oh, and don't forget to say first 'Lady Iris, please take this offering.'"
I looked at Annabeth warily then threw the dranchma in the mist that the water was making.
"Lady Iris, please take this offering... Louisa Lexter, 23 Roan Avenue, Holby, York, England."
Where the water mist was there was an image forming. It was my living room with my mum at the computer desk. "Urm... Mum?" She nearly jumped out of her seat then she stared at me with wide eyes. "Tash? What the-"
She looked around the image of me.
"Mum, please don't panic. This is an Iris message, I'm at the train station because Greek monsters are after me." I said mater-of-factly. She just gawped at me. I tried again, "You know how I read all about Greek mythology, well turns out it's all true..." I laughed nervously.
Well, from the look on her face I can confirm that it's my dad whose the Greek God, because she sure as hell hasn't heard any of this before.
"Mum, I have to go soon, to get away from the... Uh, monsters." I looked at Annabeth for help.
"Ms Lexter, Tasha has to come with us to a safe house until we can figure out how to get to Camp half-blood in America, I know this all might seem a little Crazy at the moment, but do you know who Tash's real father is?"
My mum blinked a few times, letting the obviously new information sink in.
"I-I... His name was Peter." She said. "I knew there was something different about him... but I never knew, I'm sorry... Is it all true then? This isn't a joke your pulling, is it?"
"No, I swear- I swear on the river styx it isn't a joke." I blinked, realising that was a no-go-back swear, even more serious than the pinky promise.
"When will I see you again? And where is this safe house?" My mum began to get into worried mode.
"The safe house is south-east of here. I'm not sure when you can see eachother again, we need to get to the Camp as soon as possible because we have alot of serious monsters on our trail." Annabeth said.
Don't water it down then.
"I think the end of summer will be the earliest we can come back to England." Annabeth decided.
"That's so long... When will you get your things for camp?" My mum asked.
"Can you post it?" I asked hopefully.
She sighed, "Sure, I will miss you terribly."
"You too mum, I'll send you another Iris message soon, love you."
"Love you too." She said then I waved a hand in the Iris message and the image disolved.
We walked out of the toilets and met up with the others.
"Peter... That doesn't help anything, he used a fake name." Annabeth mumbled.
"Ha, I've just realised my mum had a thing with this Peter guy when she was married to my dad- well not my dad."
Annabeth stared at me, surprised.
"Meh, didn't like my fake dad anyway." I added.
"No luck on finding out who Tasha's papa is then?" Grover asked.
We shook our heads.
I stared at the empty train track and let the others talk while I daydreamed and wondered who my real father was.
"Did you know that they filmed part of Harry potter here." I said randomly, proud that my town train station was sort of famous.
"Hey... is Hogwarts-"
"No, Hogwarts isn't real." Annabeth said, bursting my bubble.
The train arrived and we journeyed, aparently in the south-east direction. I hadn't a clue where we were going.
Annabeth grabbed a colouring pencil and a non-coloured picture of a flower then turned it over. We were sitting in a 4 seater area with a table in the middle, Argus was oposite us, on the other side of the isle.
"Okay, lets think."
Percy groaned and she glared at him.
"We could maybe figure out who Tasha's dad is from how she looks and acts." She observed me and jotted down Blonde/brown hair, deep blue eyes.
I blushed and didn't like how they where all looking at me.
"She's quite small." Grover said. I stared holes into him, I didn't like people talking about my height. He shrank into his chair and squeaked, "She can give serious death stares."
Annabeth added purple aura to the list.
"I haven't seen any other demigod with an aura that strong before." She said, defending her contribution to the list.
"Well I was sort of meditating, why don't you try it, see if we can see your aura." I reasoned.
She chewed her lip, contemplating. Then closed her eyes.
We waited several minutes but nothing happened.
"Nothing's happening, Annabeth." Percy said, Annabeth opened her eyes and rubbed them.
"Could be just you then." She said to me then underlined purple aura.
I stared out the window and looked at the meadows that we were passing, I swear I saw a green person in the woods, but the train was passing by too quickly for me to confirm it.